Size matters.
So we make yours smaller.
Typically 72% smaller. Bit-perfect. Lossless.Crate encodes every stem losslessly, stores duplicate content once, and proves each file against SHA-256 when it packs and again when it restores. What comes back is your session, sample for sample.Kufungua ni bure. Milele. Kwa yeyote. Pack yako ya kwanza tunakugharamia sisi.
CRATE
KONSOLI YA UHAMISHAJI
A real pack, and a real figure — a top-decile outcome, shown here as an illustration. What a typical session looks like unfolds below.
session.crate
AES-256 · PAR2 · split — optional
Send
this one file to your friend —
them opening it is what unpacks everything to the right
Imetengenezwa na Jon RezinMhandisi wa mix & mastering aliyeshinda Grammy
Mshindi wa Grammy
Bad Bunny · Super Bowl LX
Mitiririko 3.9B
Everyone moves audio with tools that were never made for it. Zip. Rar. We built Crate from scratch to do one thing better than anything else on earth: make audio smaller. It works. Nothing packs audio tighter. Smaller files move faster, cost less to send, and fail less often. And every pack is verified bit for bit (down to the sample level), so when it arrives you don’t cross your fingers. You know it’s perfect.
Zana, si huduma.
Crate isn’t a cloud, and packing is never a rental — one payment unlocks it for good. It’s a desktop app that crushes your session into one small, verified file — then you send it however you already do: WeTransfer, Drive, a USB stick, email. They open it free, and their DAW relinks every file, perfectly.
Imejengwa kwa ajili ya watu waliosahauliwa na intaneti.
Aina mbili za watu waliendelea kugonga ukuta uleule. Crate ni kwa ajili ya wote wawili.
Maproducer ambako data inagharimu pesa halisi
In much of the world, sending a session can cost a day’s food. Crushing it typically 72% smaller means the work moves without the cost being a wall. We can’t fix everything — but we can close some of that gap.
Yeyote anayefanya kazi kwenye Wi-Fi mbovu
Basi la tour, hoteli, studio pembezoni mwa barabara ya vumbi. Upakuaji hautaisha kabla hujaondoka; upakiaji hautawahi tarehe ya mwisho. Faili ndogo hufika kweli: sehemu zinazoweza kuendelezwa, uokoaji uliojengwa ndani, bila akaunti.
Matatizo halisi ambayo Crate hutatua
Nyakati ambazo zana za kawaida zinakugharimu masaa, pesa, au vyote viwili.
Upakiaji unasema masaa 4?
Kipindi cha 4 GB kwenye Wi-Fi ya hoteli kwa 5 Mbps huchukua zaidi ya saa moja. Kwa kawaida Crate hukibana hadi karibu 1 GB — kipindi kilekile, robo ya muda wa kusubiri, kila faili imethibitishwa, tayari kabla ya kuondoka hotelini.
A ZIP comes out twice the size.
Measured across twenty real client sessions — one machine, every result restored byte for byte: Crate’s default preset saved a median of 74.2% where a ZIP managed 51.5%, and packages build up to 8.8 times faster than RAR. Across 301 production packs, a session of a gigabyte or more typically lands about 72% smaller. Zero quality loss, every sample restored perfectly.
Hakuna click inayoingizwa kwenye mix.
Uhamishaji wa wingu huharibu faili kimyakimya. Unagundua pale mixer anaposikia pop usiku wa manane (2 AM). Crate husimbua kila faili iliyobanwa na kuikagua kwa SHA-256 wakati wa kufunga, kisha tena wakati wa kurejesha. Sampuli mbovu hukamatwa kabla hujatuma, si baadaye.
Hatua tatu. Bila akaunti.
Crate ni zana, si huduma. Inatumia njia yoyote unayoitumia tayari kutuma faili.
Dondosha kipindi chako ndani
Buruta folda yako iliyounganishwa kwenye Crate. Husimba kila faili ya sauti bila hasara, bila upotevu wowote wa ubora, na hujenga manifesti inayofichua ubadilishaji wowote.
Ituma kwa njia yako
Transfer the .crate file with WeTransfer, Google Drive, a USB stick — anything. It's typically 72% smaller — up to 93% depending on the material. Optionally encrypt, split, or add recovery data.
Wanaifungua bure
Faili zote za crate ni bure kupokea na kufungua kwa programu yetu. Mpokeaji hurejesha nakala baiti-kwa-baiti. Kila faili imethibitishwa. DAW huunganisha upya kikamilifu... kiotomatiki.
Na hufungua vitu vyote vingine. Dondosha .zip, .rar, .7z, .tar.gz, .iso au .dmg kwenye Crate na inayatoa yenyewe pale pale — fomati za archive ishirini na nne, hadi faili za .exe zinazojitoa zenyewe na picha za diski. .tar.gz hutoka kama faili zako, si kama .tar utakayolazimika kulifungua tena.
Nilijenga hii kwa sababu
mimi ndiye niliyekuwa nikisubiri.
Mimi ni mhandisi wa mix na mastering. Kwa miaka ishirini nimekuwa masikio ya mwisho kati ya maono ya msanii na hadhira, kwenye rekodi kuanzia onyesho la mapumziko la Super Bowl LX la Bad Bunny hadi Karol G, na jukwaa la Grammy moja au mbili.
Lakini mimi hu-mix popote kazi ilipo. Nimetuma vipindi kutoka vyumba vya hoteli Lagos, mikahawa ya Vienna, na katikati ya Chicago kwenye Wi-Fi ya mkahawa inayoshikiliwa na matumaini, nikitazama upakuaji ukikwama na upakiaji ukikosa tarehe za mwisho huku nikikaribia kukosa ndege yangu. Na niliona gigabaiti moja ya data inavyowagharimu watu kwenye maeneo wanapoishi washirika wangu.
Kwa hiyo nilijenga zana niliyotamani iwepo siku zote: inayobana kipindi kiwe kidogo cha kutosha kutumwa kutoka popote, na kuthibitisha kila sampuli imefika kamili. Hiyo ndiyo Crate.
CRATE ni zana nzuri sana kwa yeyote anayeshughulika na faili za muziki. Kuwa na faili ndogo zilizofungwa si tu kunaharakisha kutuma na kupokea, bali pia hunisaidia nikiwa safarini. Mikahawa au hotspot za simu sasa ni sehemu halali ninazoweza kutuma vipindi kamili kutoka. Hii ya mwisho ilikuwa kama 12GB na iliibana hadi kama 500MB.
CRATE inatatua tatizo kubwa sana kwangu linapokuja suala la kutuma faili. WiFi ya polepole? Vipindi vikubwa? Sasa vinavumilika zaidi. Nadhani watu watapenda kuona jinsi hii itakavyosaidia usimamizi wa hard drive. Kwa jinsi bei za SSD zilivyokuwa hivi karibuni, hii tayari imefungua nafasi kubwa ya thamani.
Hifadhi ni bei nafuu, hadi isipokuwe hivyo
Katika sehemu kubwa ya dunia diski ya ziada inagharimu mara kadhaa ya mshahara wa siku, na bei za SSD za 2026 zimefanya "nunua nyingine tu" kuwa ghali kila mahali. Kwa hiyo miradi iliyokamilika hufutwa ili kupata nafasi. Hiyo ndiyo kodi ya kimya kwenye kazi ya ubunifu, na ndiyo tunayokataa kuikubali.
Hifadhi kila mradi kwa sehemu ndogo ya ukubwa
Crate reduces what a session takes on disk by typically 72% — up to 93% measured — losslessly. The .crate on your drive restores to a byte-for-byte twin of the original, so archiving stops meaning goodbye.
Uthibitisho kwanza, nafasi baadaye
Kila faili huthibitishwa kwa SHA-256 inapofungwa. Hifadhi asili zako hadi urejeshaji uthibitishwe, kisha urejeshe nafasi ukiwa na risiti mkononi, si matumaini.
Karibu 500 GB hurudi kwa kila terabaiti iliyofungwa
Ielekeze Crate kwenye vipindi vya mwaka jana na uache foleni iendeshe. Kwa mchana mmoja unaweza kurejesha karibu 500 GB kwa kila terabaiti iliyofungwa, na hukulazimika kutoa mhanga mradi wowote kuipata.
Full story: what a gigabyte really costs · archiving old sessions
Twenty real sessions · twelve engines · one machine
Zip inaona baiti. Crate inaona stems.
ZIP, RAR na wengine huchukulia WAV zako kama baiti za nasibu. Crate inajua ni sauti — FLAC bila hasara, loops na bus bounces zilizoondolewa nakala, kila baiti ya pad ya Pro Tools imehifadhiwa — kwa hiyo inakuwa ndogo zaidi, na huthibitisha kila baiti inaporejeshwa. Haya ndiyo yaliyopimwa, kwenye vipindi halisi, dhidi ya kila kitu kingine.
An GB session leaves here at ≈3.9 GB — ≈79% smaller.
Chaguo za haraka:
Leaves as ≈3.9 GB ≈14.7 GB never goes up the pipe
Sending it raw costs ≈$55.80. Packed, ≈$11.77. That is ≈$44.03 you do not spend — every time this session moves.
On coffee-shop wi-fi it goes up in ≈1.7 hr instead of ≈8.3 hr, if the link holds its full rate.
Kila takwimu katika paneli hii ni makadirio — uwiano uliopimwa uliotumika kwa ukubwa ulio hapo juu, kwa dhana ya $3.00 kwa kila gigabaiti ya data ya simu. Bei ni ya kudhania, si kipimo, na yako itatofautiana.
Twelve engines, the same pooled sessions
Asilimia hizi zimepimwa — uwiano na viwango kwa kila gigabaiti, vilivyochukuliwa kwenye mkusanyiko uliotajwa hapo juu. Kila kitu chenye alama ≈ ni vipimo hivyo vilivyokadiriwa kwa ukubwa wako. Ni makadirio, si kipimo. Manjano ni injini ambayo kifurushi chake ni chini ya 1.5× ukubwa wa chetu. Nyekundu ni 1.5× au zaidi. Zote hurejesha faili zako sawasawa — rangi inaonyesha ukubwa, si kitu kingine. Upau wenye michirizi ndio kitu pekee kisichohusu ukubwa: injini hiyo haikurudisha kila baiti. Kila safu husomeka hivi: nafasi, injini, akiba iliyopimwa, kisha kifurushi, muda wa kufunga, muda wa kufungua.
Crate ina rangi kwa sababu ni yetu — si kwa sababu namba zake zilichukuliwa kwa njia tofauti. Faili zilezile, mashine ileile, saa ileile, kipima-muda kilekile.
Kila moja inakuahidi nini hasa
| Uwezo | ZIP | RAR | 7-Zip | zstd | xz | gzip | Crate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inaelewa sauti (FLAC bila hasara + uondoaji wa nakala) | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Hufungua mafaili ya archive yanayotumwa na wateja | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Huthibitisha kila faili ni sawa biti kwa biti | CRC-32* | CRC-32* | CRC-32* | XXH64* | CRC-64* | CRC-32* | SHA-256, pande zote mbili ✓ |
| Data za uokoaji zilizojengwa ndani | — | hiari | — | — | — | — | ✓ (PAR2) |
| Huunganisha upya kiotomatiki kwenye DAW yako | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Programu ya GUI kwa Mac, Windows & Linux | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
* CRC-32 (ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, gzip), CRC-64 (xz) and XXH64 (zstd — on by default in its CLI) catch accidental corruption but aren’t a cryptographic, per-file, end-to-end check — and the tar pipelines checksum the whole stream, not each file. Crate decodes and SHA-256-verifies every file while packing and on restore — the only tool here that proves your audio arrives sample-for-sample perfect.
zstd, xz and gzip are command-line stream compressors, so the benchmark ran each over a tar archive — zstd --ultra -22, xz -9e and gzip -9 — the way real sessions are shrunk with them.
Crate pia hufungua mafaili ya archive yanayotumwa na wateja: dondosha .zip au .rar ndani na faili zilizo ndani hubanwa bila hasara na kurudi sawa biti kwa biti. Uhakikisho unahusu faili zenyewe, si kifungashio chake — kwenye mpangilio wa Smallest maudhui yanaendelea kuwa kifurushi cha .crate.
Ushahidi ulioandikwa, si ahadi.
Every figure on this site traces to one documented benchmark — thirteen archiver configurations on real client sessions, every result restored and compared byte for byte. Here is what the measurement says.
Typically 72% smaller.
Across 301 production packs, a session of a gigabyte or more lands about 72% smaller — that dataset’s overall median is 58.6%. The best single measured session saved 93.1%. Zero quality loss — every sample restored perfectly.
Half the size of a ZIP.
On twenty real client sessions pooled into four lanes, Crate’s default preset saved a median of 74.2% where ZIP managed 51.5% (15–88% across sessions) and RAR-best 68.2% — and built the package up to 8.8 times faster than RAR.
Imethibitishwa biti kwa biti.
Crate husimbua kila faili iliyobanwa kurudi na kuikagua kwa SHA-256 wakati wa kufunga, kisha kuipiga hash upya wakati wa kurejesha — kwa hiyo namba zilizo hapo juu ni namba ambazo kifurushi chako mwenyewe kinarudisha.
Chunguza kipimo chote kwa undani — kila injini, kila takwimu
Inaishi pale unapofanya kazi
Hakuna programu ya kufungua kwanza. Crate hukaa kwenye upau wa menyu na menyu ya bofya-kulia, kwa hiyo kufunga ni ishara moja tu kutoka popote kwenye Finder.
Funga moja kwa moja kutoka Finder
Bofya-kulia folda ya kipindi kisha chagua Funga kwa Crate: inafunga papo hapo kwa chaguo-msingi zako, bila dirisha la kuhangaika nalo. Bofya-kulia .crate kisha chagua Fungua ili kuifungua pale pale. Chagua kadhaa kwa mara moja na zote zinaenda.
Mahali pa kudondoshea palipo daima
Crate hukusubiri kwenye upau wa menyu. Dondosha folda kwenye Banda la Haraka na zinafungwa mara moja. Foleni inayoweza kupangwa upya huziendesha moja baada ya nyingine: badilisha kipaumbele cha inayofuata, tazama maendeleo moja kwa moja, au ghairi mfululizo mzima kwa kubofya mara moja.
Albamu nzima kwa pito moja
Chagua folda kumi na mbili na uzifunge kama kifurushi kimoja au .crate tofauti kwa kila moja: Crate huuliza, kisha huziweka zote kwenye foleni. Dondosha mchanganyiko wa folda na faili za .crate pamoja na yenyewe hupanga zipi za kufunga na zipi za kufungua. Hakuna kinachoachwa.
Lipa mara moja. Funga milele.
Ununuzi wa mara moja, si kodi. Usajili wa hiari wa Send ndiyo malipo pekee yanayojirudia. Hufanya kazi nje ya mtandao.
Pakua Crate na ufungue faili yoyote ya .crate, daima bure. Bila ununuzi, bila akaunti, bila vikomo. Na pack yako ya kwanza ni bure: jaribu kufunga halisi bila leseni.
Pakua CrateFunga vipindi bila kikomo. Bila hasara kabisa: hakuna upotevu wa ubora, imethibitishwa biti-kamili kwenye kila pack. Usimbaji fiche wa hiari, kugawanya katika mafungu mengi na rekodi za uokoaji za PAR2. Masasisho yote yamejumuishwa. Maboresho ya kulipiwa ni nadra, kama yatatokea.
Nunua leseniLeseni moja kwa chumba chako chote: hadi mashine 12, zinazosimamiwa kutoka sehemu moja. Ufungaji uleule bila hasara, uliothibitishwa. Chini ya kununua leseni moja moja.
Nunua StudioZaidi ya mashine 12, vyumba vingi, au elimu / eneo zima? Tuzungumze →
No install on their side — your clients send files straight from their browser through your own upload links. Receiving is always free, for everyone.
Pakua Crate: ni bure
Programu moja. Kufungua ni bure daima, na pack yako ya kwanza tunakugharamia sisi. Nunua leseni kwa kufunga bila kikomo.
Chagua mfumo wako wa uendeshaji
.crate? Pakua Crate — kufungua ni bure daima.🎁 Buy as a gift — same license, delivered to whoever you choose at checkout.
Maswali Yanayoulizwa Mara kwa Mara
Hakuna swali linalolingana na hilo. Jaribu neno jingine, au tuulize moja kwa moja.
Je, ninahitaji akaunti?
Hapana, kamwe. Crate hufanya kazi nje ya mtandao siku hadi siku; kuwasha leseni kunahitaji muunganisho mfupi wa intaneti mara moja kwa kila kifaa, kisha muda mrefu wa neema nje ya mtandao unakuwezesha kufanya kazi popote. Pack yako ya kwanza ni bure, na ufunguo wa leseni wa mara moja hufungua kufunga bila kikomo. Bila kuingia, bila wingu.
Mtu ninayemtumia anahitaji nini?
Programu ileile: Crate. Ni upakuaji wa bure, na kufungua ni bure daima. Bila akaunti, bila malipo, kwenye Mac, Windows, au Linux. Wanaburuta faili ya .crate ndani na kupata nakala baiti-kwa-baiti.
Je, ni kweli bila hasara?
Ndiyo, bila hasara kabisa, hakuna upotevu wa ubora. Si "karibu" bila hasara, si bila hasara "kwa masikio". Kila sampuli moja ni sawa kihisabati na ile asili. FLAC na WavPack ni kodeki zilizothibitika bila hasara zinazotumiwa na kumbukumbu na studio duniani kote. Kisha SHA-256 huthibitisha kila faili. Sawa biti kwa biti, imehakikishwa.
Je, naweza kuthibitisha mwenyewe kuwa ni biti-kamili?
Ndiyo, na huhitaji kutuamini sisi. Funga kipindi, kirejeshe kwenye folda mpya, kisha piga hash folda zote mbili kwa zana za mfumo wako wa uendeshaji (shasum kwenye Mac/Linux) na ulinganishe: hash ya kila faili inalingana, baiti kwa baiti. Crate tayari hukagua kila faili mara mbili kwa SHA-256 (mara moja wakati wa kufunga, mara moja wakati wa kurejesha), lakini hoja ni kwamba unaweza kuithibitisha kwa kujitegemea, kwa zana tusizozidhibiti. Tulifanya hivyo hasa kwenye kipindi cha mix cha Pro Tools cha 1.2 GB: faili halisi 600+, kila moja ilithibitishwa kuwa sawa na OS yenyewe, huku kipindi kikipungua ~60%. Nyaraka zinaonyesha amri kamili.
Je, kipindi changu cha DAW kitafunguka bado?
Ndiyo. Kila faili hurejeshwa kwa baiti zilezile: ukubwa uleule, maudhui yaleyale, metadata ileile, kana kwamba Crate haikuigusa kamwe. Vipindi huunganisha upya na kufunguka sawasawa vilivyokuwa. Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton, Studio One, Reaper, FL Studio, Cubase: kila kimoja huunganisha upya kiotomatiki.
Inaokoa nafasi kiasi gani?
Measured, not promised. On our 20-session benchmark — twenty real client sessions pooled into four lanes, every result restored and compared byte for byte — stem sets save 78.9%, mixed sessions save 74.1%, loop-heavy material saves 68%, live and unbroken takes save 64.7%. Across 301 production packs the overall median is 58.6%, and a session of a gigabyte or more lands about 72% smaller. A ZIP of those same sessions saved a median of 51.5% (per-session range 15–88%) — close to twice the .crate package’s size. Every bit of quality is preserved — completely lossless, sample-for-sample identical.
Fomati zipi za sauti zinaungwa mkono?
Kila fomati ambayo DAW yako inaweza kuhamisha. WAV, AIFF, AIFF-C, CAF, Wave64: zote hubanwa bila hasara na kurejeshwa baiti-kwa-baiti. PCM ya float na integer, mono hadi surround, kina chochote cha biti na kiwango chochote cha sampuli. Fomati zilizokwisha kubanwa (MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG) na faili zisizo za sauti (faili za kipindi, maelezo, picha) huhifadhiwa kikamilifu jinsi zilivyo. Hata fomati adimu kama RF64 na BW64 huhifadhiwa biti kwa biti. Hakuna kinachobadilishwa wala kuachwa nyuma.
DAW zipi zinafanya kazi na Crate?
Zote. Crate hufanya kazi kwenye kiwango cha faili, si ndani ya DAW yako, kwa hiyo haifungamani na DAW yoyote. Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, Nuendo, Studio One, Reaper, FL Studio, Bitwig, Pyramix, SADiE: ikiwa inahifadhi faili kwenye diski, Crate inaimudu. Faili za kipindi, mipangilio ya plugin, na kila kipande cha metadata hupita salama. Fungua kipindi upande wa pili na kila kitu huunganisha upya.
Je, kuna usajili?
Si kwa kufunga. Lipa mara moja, funga milele — leseni ya mara moja inafungua kufunga bila kikomo, na haifungwi tena. Usajili pekee ni Crate Send, uhamishaji unaopangishwa wa hiari: ukiwa hai, unashughulikia kutuma na kufunga bila kikomo, na miezi 12 ya malipo hukupa leseni kuwa mali yako — unacha kulipa na unabaki na programu. Kupokea ni bure daima kwa kila mtu.
Kwa nini Crate ipo?
Kwa sababu kipindi cha 4 GB hakipaswi kumgharimu mtu mshahara wa siku kukipakua. Katika sehemu kubwa ya dunia, data ya simu ni $3–10 kwa gigabaiti, na mara nyingi ndiyo muunganisho pekee uliopo. Kwa kawaida Crate hupunguza kipindi hicho hadi karibu 1 GB bila upotevu wowote wa ubora, ili washirika kila mahali wapokee kazi yako bila kuchagua kati ya bandwidth na kodi ya nyumba. Ilianza kama zana ya kutuma stems kuvuka bahari kwenye miunganisho mibovu. Ikageuka kuwa jinsi sauti ilivyopaswa kusafiri siku zote.
Crate inatofautianaje na ZIP au RAR?
ZIP and RAR read your audio as random bytes. Crate uses purpose-built lossless codecs that understand PCM audio, and dedupes the loops and bounces a session repeats. Measured on twenty real client sessions pooled into four lanes, one machine, every result round-trip verified: ZIP saved a median of 51.5% (15–88% across sessions), RAR-best 68.2% (28–92%), Crate’s default preset 74.2% (38–93%) — so a ZIP comes out close to twice the .crate package’s size, and Crate builds it up to 8.8 times faster than RAR. Then Crate SHA-256 verifies every file to prove the restore is identical. Neither ZIP nor RAR does that.
Kwa nini kutumia Crate badala ya WeTransfer au Dropbox tu?
Because they move bytes — they don't understand audio, and they don't prove anything arrived intact. WeTransfer and Dropbox send your session at full size (a 4 GB session is 4 GB on their bandwidth and their clock), with size caps, expiring links, or a monthly bill for the space. Neither one re-encodes audio, so a silently corrupted stem arrives looking perfectly fine. Crate is different on both fronts: it shrinks the session by typically 72% — up to 93% measured — with zero quality loss, and it SHA-256 verifies every file on the way in and the way out, so "bit-perfect" is something you can see, not hope for. Crate isn't a replacement for them — pack with Crate, then send the smaller, verified .crate over whichever service you already use.
Ninajuaje urejeshaji ni sawa kweli, si tu "pengine uko sawa"?
Crate huithibitisha kila hatua. Wakati wa kufunga, haiamini kodeki: husimbua kila faili iliyobanwa kurudi kwenye sauti ghafi na kuthibitisha SHA-256 inalingana na asili, kwa hiyo hitilafu ya kisimbaji hukamatwa kabla hujatuma. Hash ya kila faili, kina cha biti, kiwango cha sampuli na mpangilio wa chaneli hurekodiwa kwenye manifesti iliyotiwa sahihi kwa Ed25519 kwa chaguo-msingi: programu inayopokea hukagua sahihi na kuonyesha alama ya ufunguo wa mtumaji, kwa hiyo uchezeaji njiani hugunduliwa na mtumaji anaweza kuthibitishwa. Wakati wa kurejesha, kila faili hupigwa hash upya na kulinganishwa, na Crate huandika ripoti ya uadilifu: "faili 34 kati ya 34 zimerejeshwa na kuthibitishwa biti-kamili." Kikishindikana chochote, urejeshaji hutupwa mzima badala ya kukuachia kipindi kilichojengwa nusu. CRC-32 ya ZIP, WeTransfer, na Dropbox hazifanyi lolote kati ya haya.
Je, naweza kufunga moja kwa moja kutoka Finder?
Ndiyo. Bofya-kulia folda yoyote kisha chagua Funga kwa Crate: inafunga mara moja kwa mipangilio yako ya chaguo-msingi, bila kufungua dirisha la programu kwanza. Bofya-kulia faili ya .crate kisha chagua Fungua kwa Crate ili kuirejesha. Chagua vitu kadhaa kwa mara moja na Crate huvishughulikia vyote, ikipanga folda za kufunga na faili za .crate za kufungua. Crate hujiwekea menyu hizi yenyewe mara ya kwanza inapoendeshwa.
Je, naweza kufunga kundi zima la folda kwa mara moja?
Ndiyo. Chagua folda nyingi za vipindi, au albamu nzima, na Crate huuliza kama kuziunganisha kuwa kifurushi kimoja au kutengeneza .crate tofauti kwa kila moja. Vyovyote vile hujipanga kwenye foleni inayoendesha moja baada ya nyingine, ili mashine yako isilemewe kufanya kumi kwa wakati mmoja. Banda la Haraka la upau wa menyu huonyesha kinachoendelea na kinachofuata; panga foleni upya, au ghairi mfululizo mzima kwa kubofya mara moja.
Je, naweza kutumia huduma yangu ya wingu kutuma faili?
Ndiyo: huduma yoyote, njia yoyote. Crate ni zana, si jukwaa. Funga kipindi chako, kisha tuma faili ya .crate upendavyo: Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer, S3, diski ya USB, hata AirDrop. Crate haipakii, haihifadhi, haigusi intaneti. Faili zako, chaguo lako la usafirishaji.
Je, faili ikiharibika wakati wa uhamishaji?
Crate huikamata. Kila faili huthibitishwa kwa SHA-256 wakati wa kufunga na tena wakati wa kurejesha: hata biti moja ikiwa si sahihi, utajua mara moja badala ya kugundua click kwenye mix usiku wa manane (2 AM). Kwa miunganisho isiyoaminika, ongeza data za uokoaji za PAR2 na Crate inaweza kurekebisha uharibifu kiotomatiki bila kupakua upya. Gawanya katika mafungu yanayoweza kuendelezwa ili muunganisho uliokatika usimaanishe kuanza upya.
Inagharimu kiasi gani?
Pack yako ya kwanza ni bure: jaribu kufunga halisi bila leseni. Kufungua ni bure daima kwa kila mtu, kila mahali: bila malipo, bila akaunti. Kisha leseni ya mara moja hufungua kufunga bila kikomo, milele. Malipo pekee yanayojirudia ni usajili wa hiari wa Crate Send — na miezi 12 ya malipo ya Send hukupa leseni kuwa mali yako.
Je, pack ya kwanza ni bure kweli?
Ndiyo. Kila usakinishaji hupata pack moja ya bure yenye vipengele vyote: bila hasara kabisa, imethibitishwa kikamilifu, bila alama ya maji, bila mtego, ili ujaribu kufunga halisi kwenye kipindi chako mwenyewe kabla ya kununua. Kufungua ni bure daima kwa kila mtu. Ukiwa tayari kwa zaidi, leseni ya mara moja hufungua kufunga bila kikomo.
Nimepoteza ufunguo wangu wa leseni.
Hakuna tatizo. Bofya hapa kuurejesha: weka barua pepe uliyotumia kununua na tutakutumia tena ufunguo wako.
Why does my unpacked folder show a different size in Finder?
Short answer: what you unpacked is your session, bit for bit — the size difference is how your drive reports storage, not the files. Two things are happening. First, Crate skips system junk files (.DS_Store and friends) — the same ones ZIP and RAR skip — because macOS regenerates them automatically; your copy gets a fresh one the moment you open the folder in Finder. Second, if your drive is APFS, the "on disk" figure shifts a little: the drive may store your original files in a compressed form while freshly written files are stored plain. The content is identical; the storage bookkeeping isn't. Two levers if you want the numbers to sit closer: use Re-verify or Refresh Finder size in the app — sometimes that nudge is all Finder needs — and if your session contains zips, turning on Archive expansion in Settings repacks their contents through the same lossless pipeline instead of storing the archive whole, so repeated audio inside them compresses properly. And the verification isn't Finder's opinion — every file was SHA-256 fingerprinted when packed and re-checked when restored. If it says verified, the files are identical. Not close, not similar — identical.
Can I trust a small team with my archives? What happens if Crate disappears?
Every format you already trust was built by a team this size or smaller — none had corporate scale until the ecosystem adopted them, not the reverse:
- ZIP — Phil Katz, essentially alone (PKWARE: two people and a lawyer)
- tar & gzip — no company at all: Bell Labs and two GNU volunteers
- 7-Zip — Igor Pavlov, one person in 1999; still a tiny team
- FLAC — Josh Coalson, one developer, then the Xiph.Org nonprofit
- WavPack — David Bryant, one person, to this day
- WinRAR — a small family company, ~10 people
Your .crate files are built on those same standard tools (7-Zip, FLAC, WavPack) — no Crate-proprietary byte anywhere in the container — and Crate's complete format specification, reference decoder and runnable proof are published at github.com/fluxcodestudio/crate-format — any engineer, or any AI assistant, can reconstruct every file byte-exactly with the standard tools alone. Unpacking is free forever, in Crate and without it, and your crates stay openable even if you never open our app again. Longevity for your masters is the product, not the promise.
Where can I read the full no-lock-in story?
On the Never locked in page — it walks through all three layers in depth: how a Standard pack opens with free 7-Zip and codec tools today, the release gate that proves every tier rebuilds without Crate, and the published pledge — the complete format specification, reference decoder and test vectors are public at github.com/fluxcodestudio/crate-format, with the standing commitments (unpacking free forever, backward compatibility as a release gate, and exactly what happens if we ever dissolve) written down and signed.
Mahitaji ya mfumo ni yapi?
macOS: 10.15 Catalina au zaidi (Apple Silicon & Intel). Windows: Windows 10 au zaidi, 64-bit. Linux: Ubuntu 22.04+ au Debian 12+, au distro yoyote yenye glibc 2.35+ na libwebkit2gtk-4.1, x86_64. Matoleo yote ni ya 64-bit. Haihitaji GPU, na kasi ya usimbaji huongezeka na core za CPU. Kufunga ndiyo hatua inayotumia kumbukumbu zaidi: Crate huhifadhi sauti kwenye RAM wakati inaibana na kuithibitisha, kwa hivyo nafasi ya RAM ndiyo huwezesha session kubwa sana na faili moja kubwa sana kufungwa kwa uhuru. Kurejesha ni jepesi zaidi.
Ninapataje msaada?
Fungua ombi la msaada hapa chini; ambatanisha ufunguo wako wa leseni kwa msaada wa kipaumbele.